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Contents:
- WHY PHOTO OF BASEBALL PLAYER BEG KISSED STCK CHORD WH CLOSETED GAY FAN
- RSIAN ATHLET ISSUE ANGRY NIAL OF ‘GAY KISS’ PROTT
- ITALIAN SPORTS MAGAZE PICTG GAY GBY KISS ON VER SUFFERS TWTER BACKLASH
- G KENWORTHY’S GAY KISS SCENE WAS CUT OM NEW TOM BRADY MOVIE
- WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- MICHAEL SAM'S BIG GAY KISS WILL NEVER BE FOTTEN. THAT WAS THE WHOLE POT
- JONATHAN GROFF REUNTS SWEET STORY OF HIS FIRST GAY KISS DURG ‘BROADWAY GIV BACK’ INTERVIEW: ‘I WAS LEVATG’
- ‘RIVERDALE’ STAR KERR SMH ON TV’S FIRST GAY KISS: ‘IT WAS TENSE’
- SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
- HOW MICHAEL CASHMAN CHANGED THE WORLD: OM EASTENRS' FIRST GAY KISS TO STONEWALL
- G KENWORTHY SAYS GAY KISS WAS REMOVED OM '80 FOR BRADY' : 'I THK THEY CUT IT FOR MIDDLE AMERI'
- WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
- JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
WHY PHOTO OF BASEBALL PLAYER BEG KISSED STCK CHORD WH CLOSETED GAY FAN
Two Rsian athlet issued angry nials that their kiss on the victory podium at the world champnships was a prott agast new anti gay propaganda laws. * sport gay kiss *
Preparatn had been very different this time Sochi 2014 he'd been "terrified of beg outed" a untry where 'promotn of homosexualy' was illegal and had worried he might be chased out of the the Amerin was one of two openly gay men the USA team. " Now aged 29, Kenworthy (left) was 22 when his silver helped the USA sweep the men's sloptyle skig medals at Sochi 2014Homophobia was drawn to the mastream spotlight the build-up to the Sochi 2014 Olympics after the host natn - Rsia - troduced new 'anti-gay' legislatn, provokg wispread cricism across the globe.
"Canadian figure skater Eric Radford ma history by beg the first openly gay male Wter Olympic champn at Pyeongchang 2018 and Kenworthy now dreams of followg him by toppg the podium himself Cha. This photo shows that hopefully that wall is cmblg when an assistant ach is not aaid to show his love (of any kd) for a young player on his birthday and btow a sign of affectn (whether be straight, bi, or gay) on him pla view of everyone the dugout (and obvly wh photographers prent. What I like is that my emailer do not assume the ach is gay (Turner has a wife and three kids) but that we should celebrate public displays of affectn between men given how we are hard-wired om a young age to avoid them.
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RSIAN ATHLET ISSUE ANGRY NIAL OF ‘GAY KISS’ PROTT
Sloptyle skier G Kenworthy left this Olympics more fulfilled than the last spe not wng a medal, bee he peted as openly gay * sport gay kiss *
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Two Rsian athlet issued angry nials Tuday that their exchange of a kiss on the victory podium at the world champnships was a prott agast their untry’s strict new anti gay propaganda law. When profsnal wrtler Anthony Bowens and his boyiend, YouTube star Michael Pavano, me across a homophobic group of protters recently, they cid to kiss the hate away a very public lip-lock right on the spot.
"Standup agast hate, " Bowens wrote to Instagram, taggg both his boyiend Pavano as well as GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign the publicly me out as bisexual 2017, but now intifi as gay. One fan named WWFMike said he "started watchg wrtlg as a teen" and add that "wasn't always easy beg a gay fan, " but that he was happy "today's fans have someone like you" as an out and visible role mol for the wrtl for All Ele Wrtlg, generally nsired the send-largt wrtlg promoter the untry after WWE.
ITALIAN SPORTS MAGAZE PICTG GAY GBY KISS ON VER SUFFERS TWTER BACKLASH
Two athlet recently g out has highlighted the arth of openly gay players the world of U.S. men's profsnal sports, often dubbed "the last closet" for s lack of LGBTQ reprentatn. * sport gay kiss *
While sports rema closely aligned to hegemonic masculy (English, 2017) there is a shiftg culture emergg toward acceptance of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ+) people wh society; sport beg a domant area of participatn for the LGBTIQ+ muny (Ker and Krane, 2006; Ensign et al., 2011; Anrson et al., 2012; Oswalt, and Vargas., 2013; Cleland, 2014; Channon and Matthews, 2015; Piedra et al., 2017). Rearch on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer/Qutng + sport experienc largely emerge om ele level, llege (Eng, 2008; Anrson et al., 2016) and profsnal settgs (Billgs et al., 2015).
G KENWORTHY’S GAY KISS SCENE WAS CUT OM NEW TOM BRADY MOVIE
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * sport gay kiss *
(2017) f the ncept of homohysteria as:Engagg actns tend to distance onelf om the spicn of beg gay, Anrson not that among men, homohysteria is typilly manifted by fleeg om femized behavr, cludg physil ntact wh other men or showg signs of affectn and emotn, while also matag homophobic disurse.
WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
<b>Cyd Zeigler:</b> Homophob may have reiled after the NFL's first openly gay player celebrated his draft pick wh his boyiend. But was a msage to everyone that everythg has changed * sport gay kiss *
Homohysteria helps to expla how genred patterns of behavr—both wh and outsi of sport settgs—play out relatn to shiftg levels of societal homophobia, particularly highlightg how homophobia n affect the behavr of dividuals who may not necsarily be homophobic themselv (P.
However, this needs to be led by social, cultural and legislative procs (Piedra et al., 2017), pecially as homohysteria n be part of anizatnal or stutnal culture, such as sport (Anrson and Bullgham, 2015). Ined, fdgs om var ternatnal studi lbian, gay and bisexual people sport show that there are still prevalent issu of homophobia, homohysteria, discrimatn, abe, bullyg, otherg, stigmatizg and silencg agast LGBTIQ+ players, parents, ach and the wir LGBTIQ+ muny sportg environments (Mattey et al., 2014; Denison and Kchen, 2015; Lee and Cunngham, 2016; Waldron, 2016; Piedra et al., 2017; Symons et al., 2017; Petty and Tssell, 2018; Tssell et al., 2018).
Denison and Kchen’s study entled ‘Out on the Fields’ was the first ternatnal study on homophobia sport and clud rearch participants om six Wternized untri; Atralia, Uned Stat, Uned Kgdom, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, addn to an ‘other’ tegory pturg multiple other untri (2015).
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
* sport gay kiss *
Acrdg to participants 80% wnsed or experienced homophobia sport Atralia, wh 85% of gay men and 84% of lbians personally targeted heard verbal slurs such a ‘dyke’ or ‘faggot’ (Denison and Kchen, 2015). Youth sport is an area of vulnerabily, wh 70% of gay people statg that team sport is not safe for gay people, cludg nsirable fear of discrimatn om players and officials (Denison and Kchen, 2015).
The study noted that rponse to homophobia ‘inty impact’ occurred, that is, the way which LGBTIQ+ people perceived themselv or, the manner which they acknowledged or exprsed their own sexual inty (Symons et al., 2017). Homophobia n create feelgs that LGBTIQ+ dividuals are not ‘OK’ or are ‘ls than’ and unrps that LGBTIQ+ people are not wele sport, and if wantg to participate, sexuali should rema hidn (Meyer, 2003; Symons et al., 2017).
QuantativePhase One of the study was a prehensive, onle qutnnaire (approximately 15 m), signed to accs a diverse range of genrs and sexuali, cludg, albe not limed to, those who intify as heterosexual, lbian, gay, bisexual, tersex, transgenr, queer, asexual or other, who are current sport participants or ex-sport participants aged 18 years and over. The qutnnaire clud key mographics, and qutns related to discrimatn, the stcture of sportg club’s clivy, myths surroundg sexualy sport, homophobia sport, and other barriers and enablers of sportg participatn for the LGBTIQ+ muny.
MICHAEL SAM'S BIG GAY KISS WILL NEVER BE FOTTEN. THAT WAS THE WHOLE POT
A supposed requt for a webse for a same-sex weddg played a mor role a major clash between ee speech and gay rights at the Supreme Court. * sport gay kiss *
Neverthels, the voic of the participants have been heard and need to be were a range of them that emerged relatn to a variety of topics cludg homophobia, sexism and genr discrimatn, genr rol and genr stereotyp. The them that are prented below are based on this HomophobiaHomophobic Language, Attus and BehavrHomophobic language has the pacy to impact members of the LGBTIQ+ muny many and varied ways. ” This is a very important issue that has been raised by the participants who are a part of the LGBTIQ+ muny particularly wh the way which the term lbian creat feelgs of disquiet amongst gay if you’re a woman that is really good at football, you’re probably gog to be lled a dyke or somethg like that, you’re jt a lbian, sort of thg, that’s why you’re also, like, on the opposn maybe, was ed as an sult, ls wh the team but if an opposn had players which were perceived as gay or manly, or somethg like that, they would sometim be rived, rid, like sulted g the gay or sults like that.
JONATHAN GROFF REUNTS SWEET STORY OF HIS FIRST GAY KISS DURG ‘BROADWAY GIV BACK’ INTERVIEW: ‘I WAS LEVATG’
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay. His announcement is a first for a male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league. * sport gay kiss *
I felt really fortable and accepted and stuff, but when I tell other people that I play Gaelic football, I always feel the negative nnotatns of and slightly self-nsc about n be argued that homophobic language is a form of homophobic attus and behavr. ’ Yeah, I didn’t feel fortable enough to say rpect to homophobic attus, discsn regularly veloped around the supposed ways which lbians speak and drs, or their perceived level of threat based on sexualy. The rt has all jt been when they’re jt groups and they are always talkg about homophobia and always talkg about lbians and always talkg about how bad is and even when they start talkg about the men and llg them poofters and gay and ’s always a trimental thg and, yeah, so probably jt more that sort of speak, that really homophobic speak around .
Homophobic language, attus and behavr are still prevalent, and existence, spe the argument to suggt that that has been a crease of occurrence across generatns (Denison and Kchen, 2015). Given that some of the participants stated that targeted harassment n occur sports, and a small proportn had experienced homophobic behavr and attus om others, support is required to immediately arrt all forms of Generatnal ShiftThere was regnn that society as a whole has shifted s views related to the LGBTIQ+ muny.
We jt need to be seeg those on our screen more regularly, and hearg about them more regularly on rad and out the muny, you know, whout potg to their sexual orientatn or anythg was regnized that latent homophobia still exists sportg clubs and that attudal chang are slow, as prevly intified. There was a, the generatn before me which were really active mpaigners or not, who had a certa view around thgs and then there was my generatn and then they talked about a generatn, so if you grew up the 70s or 80s there was a particular name for , I n’t remember what was but if you grew, if most of your childhood was the 90s or afterward they lled a post gay generatn where an attu, was the nversatn was really good I’ll send to you.
‘RIVERDALE’ STAR KERR SMH ON TV’S FIRST GAY KISS: ‘IT WAS TENSE’
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen jt me out as gay. * sport gay kiss *
I thk ’s; I thk they lled post gay bee was, yeah, ’s a generatn where labels don’t matter as much where there’s a great al more fluidy by terms of sexual inty and Sportg Organizatns and ClubsLears/GovernanceThere was overwhelmg mentary om the participants this rearch claimg that posive, welg, clive ernance om sportg boards and mte, as well as other signifint lears, is tegral to club’s beg clive to the LGBTIQ+ muny. It is clear that transgenr people mt al wh a range of issu beyond those of lbian, gay and bisexual dividuals and therefore, wh a sportg ntext, a number of the participants intified that sportg clubs and anizatns are “jt not well set up to ter for transgenr participants” wh their club or anizatn.
SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
The problem, however, is the public perceptn of such sports beg emblematic of gay and lbian women and therefore risk the potential of straight women gravatg away om the sport for of beg label gay or aga, irrpective of sexualy there are major hurdl for sport to velop clive practic and polici given the genr divi which we exist. "Gay men are a fe rource, so they n't exist great numbers every quarter, " Magrath told "Gay men are overreprented some areas, and as a nsequence are gog to be unrreprented sports.
HOW MICHAEL CASHMAN CHANGED THE WORLD: OM EASTENRS' FIRST GAY KISS TO STONEWALL
There are key differenc the cultur of men's and women's athletics While few active players the major men's sports leagu have e out, many female profsnal athlet have said publicly that they're gay, om U. We went through middle school to high school together and I fely had a csh on him, I jt never really, was jt like I really liked him, I didn’t know if he was gay, we never talked about , I never even let that part of me really out. We were on dance teams together, I gus I should have known he was gay then, but, we were on dance teach together, we ran track, we did a lot of sports together so I was always sleepg over at his hoe, and there would be tim that I would be over there spendg the night wishg somethg would happen, anythg, a kiss, jt him tellg me, like, you know, high school boy’s fantasy I gus.
Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. Although this was not the first lbian kiss on the show, was the first not done to thwart creepy men htg on Warrr Prcs Durg the 1990s and 2000s, viewers excedly watched actrs Lucy Lawls (Xena) and Renee O'Connor (Gabrielle) lock lips on several ocsns, all while wonrg if the two were gay or not.
G KENWORTHY SAYS GAY KISS WAS REMOVED OM '80 FOR BRADY' : 'I THK THEY CUT IT FOR MIDDLE AMERI'
However, a recent episo ma headl for featurg TV's youngt gay kiss history: It occurred between teenage characters Ju and & Grace Classic edy Will & Grace had dienc cheerg durg a 2000 episo when Will and Jack locked lips. Wh that over wh, now there have been plenty of kiss sce and a same-sex weddg, of Our LivAlthough late to the party, NBC's Days of Our Liv aired s first gay kiss 2012, between Will (Chandler Massey) and Neil (Jse Kristofferson).
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
LookgAs the HBO dramedy centered on gay men, had no shortage of same-sex kissg, but the kiss between protagonist Patrick (Jonathan Groff) and Kev (Rsell Tovey) had the extra forbidn air -- Kev was not only partnered, he was Patrick's is the New BlackWe uldn't have this list and not feature the impet for ! There are many lovely lbian kiss on this show, but how about when Piper (Taylor Schillg) fally giv to her attractn to Alex, the no-good ex who helped land her ItThe entire MTV show may be foced on the fx lbian relatnship of Karma and Amy, but 's De and Shane who live out every gay teen's wet dream. Connor and Oliver are the clear power gay uple, but was revealed that Annalise Keatg is attracted to both sex and has a stunng ex-girliend (Famke Jansen) to To Get Away Wh MurrIt's an absolute necsy to clu law stunt, Connor (Jack Falahee), and his boyiend, Oliver (Conrad Rimora) on this list.
EmpireAlthough there isn't any vio footage available of the gay kiss between Jamal Lyon (Jsie Smollett), Empire's heir, and his boyiend Michael (Rafael la Fuente), the picture explas all. Even people who are agast same-sex marriage uld unrstand the symbolism of the first openly gay player the biggt sport the biggt untry the was another thg entirely for the world to watch, a few mut later, as two men kissed. Watchg the kiss was, apparently, a stggle as kds of tractors, the kd who don't want to talk about gay athlet, claim that sports – particularly at the profsnal level – are only about wng and losg.
Likewise, Cha has a history of clampg down the movements, and the bt general nsens you n extract om the untry is the silent unrstandg that homosexualy exists—as seen by the burgeong llectn of webnovels volvg such pairgs—but they mostly prefer to keep out of public eye.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
On March 9, LGBTQ employe and alli at Pixar Animatn Studs sent a jot statement to Walt Disney Company learship claimg that Disney executiv had actively censored “overtly gay affectn” s feature films. The stunng allegatn — ma as part of a larger prott over the pany’s lack of public rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill — did not clu which Pixar films had weathered the censorship, nor which specific creative cisns were cut or altered.
The most overtly LGBTQ project Pixar’s non is a 2020 short film, “Out, ” about a gay man stgglg wh g out to his parents — which the stud released on Disney Pl as part of s SparkShorts program.
The News of the World ran a double-page spread, headled “Secret Gay Love of Aids Sre EastEnr”, which outed his partner and prted the uple’s photos and was even an attempt to orchtrate “sister” stori about him.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
Through his varied, high-profile reer and life-changg relatnship wh his hband, Pl Cottgham (an actor and mpaigner who died of ncer 2014), tells not jt the story of his life, but also the battle for LGBT equaly the the Sun vered the story of the EastEnrs gay kiss 1989When news broke that Cashman’s character would share the first gay kiss a Brish soap (a peck on the forehead), the backlash only tensified. In 1999, he beme the untry’s first openly gay Labour MEP and went on to be print of the European Parliament’s tergroup on gay and lbian issu, while also helpg nvce Tony Blair’s ernment to troduce same-sex civil partnerships. He was ma a Labour peer 2014 and has champned issu such as pulsory LGBT-clive sex and relatnships year, he rigned om the Labour party after endorsg the pro-rema Liberal a gay rights march 1988 wh Ian McKellen.
It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.
'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".
JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
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JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice. -- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn.